Recent content by Beau87

API test kit. Washed the gravel with tap water an no chemicals, wasn't concerned about the clorine as I was treating that with stress coat when I added the water.

I had the old cycled noodles in the tank filter, ammonia was 0

Both snails were upright moving around yesterday, I used API Stress Coat and API quickstart, water is from the tap, I treated it an cycled it for a few hours before putting them in. Both were upside down this morning an dead never seen that happen in the 4 months I've had them. Strangely I've...

Hi all a quick run down of what happend lately. Ive had my Nerite snails for about 4months, they live with a single Betta in a 30litre tank everything was fine they were moving around eating all the algae until recently.50% of water is changed every 10 days an all water parameters seem decent PH...

Interesting thread, I have a Betta which is roughly 8months old the 1st month I was trialing so many types of foods with him, fluval tropical flakes,API Betta flakes,frozen brine shrimp, spirulina flakes, frozen krill, API pellets, he didn't eat any of them at all. The only thing he eats is...

No problem with the food dye idea, another quick question, does there need to be a certain silicone that needs to be used for fish tanks. I have bathroom an shower water proof sealent, the chemicals in the silicone won't kill the fish? Sanitary grade silicone Watertight seal Acetic cure...

You can see the water damage, the top lid of the cabinet is swollen.

Water was all over the bottom of the tank an the cabinet timber was all swollen because of moisture, currently filled the bottom part of the tank with food die an seeing if it's leaking at the bottom silicone joints, I will silicone all the joints again to be safe anyway, but curious to see...

I don't have my filter or pump running in the tank just the noodle media, I just put the airstone in the middle of the tank to get some sort of flow in there, still ok?

Woke up today an water dropped about an inch overnight 130 litre tank,water is leaking from somewhere maybe the silicone sealant around the edges somewhere. I moved my fish into a big plastic tub 100litres with the water from the tank into the tub, but only used half the water as it's only a...

Thanks for the research utar, one part that is very concerning to me is the transmission to people. The last month I've had awfull ithcyness on my legs an arms they are small red bumps that are extremely itchy.It got to the point it was so itchy they started to bleed. I went to the doctors an...